Acoustic Styles

Let's discover different amazing acoustic styles today!

Folk Baroque
A distinctive style to emerge from Britain in the early 1960s, which combined elements of American folk, blues, jazz and ragtime with British traditional music, was what became known as 'folk baroque'. 

"New-Age" Fingerstyle
In 1976, William Ackerman started Windham Hill Records, which carried on the Takoma tradition of original compositions on solo steel string guitar. However, instead of the folk and blues oriented music of Takoma, including Fahey's American primitive guitar, the early Windham Hill artists (and others influenced by them) abandoned the steady alternating or monotonic bass in favor of sweet flowing arpeggios and flamenco-inspired percussive techniques. This music was generally pacific, accessible and expressionistic. 

Percussive Fingerstyle
"Percussive picking" is an emerging term for a style incorporating sharp attacks on the strings, as well as hitting the strings and guitar top with the hand for percussive effect. Flamenco guitarists have been using these techniques for years but the greater resistance of steel strings made a similar approach difficult in fingerstyle until the use of pickups on acoustic guitars became common in the early 1970s.

Funky Fingerstyle
"Funky Fingerstyle" emerged in the mid 2000s as a style in which the sounds of a full funk or R&B ensemble are emulated on one guitar. Uncommon sounds are being discovered thanks to the technical possibilities of various pickups, mics and octave division effects pedals.

African Fingerstyle
The 6 string guitar was brought to Africa by traders and missionaries (although there are indigenous guitar-like instruments such as the ngoni). Its uptake varies considerably between regions, and there is therefore no single African acoustic guitar style. In some cases, the styles and techniques of other instruments have been applied to the guitar; for instance, a technique where the strings are plucked with the thumb and one finger imitates the two-thumbed plucking of the kora andmbira.

So, which one is your favorite style? 

Sources cited from Wikipedia.